Tutorial: Set Up a Client’s Site to be Editable with Cushy CMS
Published January 15th, 2009 in Web Development - 56 Comments
If you design websites for clients you know that most clients these days want the ability to update the site themselves. Fortunately, content management systems make this possible. However, depending on the types of clients that you work with, you may find that sometimes going with a full-feature CMS is overkill for a client that only needs to update a few pages.
Each client has there own unique needs, and there may be times when you come across someone who is not interested in anything fancy, but they want a small website that will allow them to change the content of pages.
60 Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Touch-Ups
Published January 13th, 2009 in Design, Photoshop Tutorials - 112 Comments
Photoshop has tons of potential for improving photos in one way or another. No matter how much experience you have with Photoshop there is probably more that you can learn in these areas. This is a categorized collection of tutorials that will show you some new tricks for photo touch-ups.
Also see 60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements at DesignM.ag.
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Theme Giveaway from Theme Galaxy!
Published January 8th, 2009 in Competition - 50 Comments
Premium WordPress theme developers Theme Galaxy are giving away two free licenses to their newest theme, Lyra. This new theme (shown below) features a creative illustrated design that may be just right for your blog.
25 Incredibly Artistic Websites – Part 4
Published January 7th, 2009 in Galleries - 29 Comments
Artistic and creative websites with interesting background images and/or headers seem to be more and more common all the time. I’ve done a few roundups of this style in the past, but great new examples keep popping up, so here is part 4.
35 Photoshop Tutorials for Realistic Results
Published January 5th, 2009 in Design - 33 Comments
Sometimes it’s amazing how realistic a Photoshop creation can look. In this post we’ll feature 35 tutorials for creating realistic effects in Photoshop. Some will show you how to illustrate an object from scratch, while others teach how to edit photos with realistic elements, such as water or snow.
Create a Realistic Blackberry Style Mobile Phone from Scratch
WordPress Tutorial: Category Trick for WP 2.7
Published January 4th, 2009 in WordPress - 49 Comments
A lot has been written about the recent release WordPress 2.7, and I think most WordPress users and developers understand that this release adds some significant features that open up some new options for theme development. I did a little bit of experimenting with one of the changes and I wanted to write a brief tutorial that demonstrates a real-world situation for taking advantage of a new feature.
